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Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author de Dr Derek Parker Royal

Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author

Autor Dr Derek Parker Royal
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2005

Analizând bazele de date critice dedicate literaturii americane contemporane, observăm că volumul Philip Roth, coordonat de Dr Derek Parker Royal, ocupă o poziție privilegiată prin abordarea sa exhaustivă. Publicată de Bloomsbury Publishing sub egida Praeger, această lucrare în format hardback de 316 pagini vine să completeze o lacună în studiile critice, oferind o privire de ansamblu asupra întregii cariere a autorului, un demers necesar având în vedere productivitatea neîntreruptă a lui Roth în anii '90 și 2000.

Descoperim aici o structură riguroasă, organizată cronologic și tematic. Volumul debutează cu analize asupra debutului din 1959, explorând „Goodbye, Columbus”, și avansează spre lucrări de maturitate precum „The Counterlife” sau „Operation Shylock”. Fiecare eseu, semnat de specialiști în domeniu, integrează natural contextul istoric al suburbanizării americane cu dilemele identitare ale etniei evreiești, fără a neglija dimensiunea satirică și comică specifică prozei lui Roth. Notăm cu interes capitolul dedicat strategiilor narative din „Portnoy's Complaint”, care oferă instrumente analitice precise pentru înțelegerea mecanismelor de provocare literară.

Acoperă aceeași arie ca The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth de Timothy Parrish, dar cu o abordare care pune un accent mai mare pe legătura organică dintre temele recurente (precum eșecul visului american) și evoluția stilistică a personajelor-alter ego ale lui Roth. În contextul operei editoriale a lui Dr Derek Parker Royal, acest volum continuă preocuparea sa pentru identitatea culturală, temă explorată și în Visualizing Jewish Narratives, dar o transpune aici într-un cadru de critică literară pură, destinat mediului universitar. Rezultatul este un instrument de lucru care echilibrează rigoarea academică cu o claritate necesară oricărui cercetător al beletristicii americane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780275983635
ISBN-10: 0275983633
Pagini: 316
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această colecție de eseuri este esențială pentru studenții și cercetătorii în filologie care doresc o analiză actualizată a operei lui Philip Roth. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a evoluției literare a unuia dintre cei mai premiați scriitori americani, beneficiind de expertiza președintelui Philip Roth Society. Este resursa ideală pentru a descifra teme complexe precum identitatea, satira și istoria socială a Americii postbelice.

Descriere

Of all contemporary American writers, Philip Roth is perhaps the most ambitious, yet he is one of the most underrepresented in terms of critical attention given his place in American letters. Unlike many aging novelists, whose production and creative mastery wane over time, Roth has demonstrated a unique ability not only to sustain his literary output, but also to surpass the scope and talent inherent in his previous writings. He has been awarded many literary honors, and in the 1990s alone he won every major American book award. This long-overdue collection of essays covers Roth's entire output and links themes across works, highlighting those thoughts and ideas that recur frequently.

Unlike older introductions to Roth's writings, this volume will provide up-to-date coverage of all his works. Each chapter introduces the work or works under discussion, provides a brief summary of the story, and moves on to a lively analysis of its various literary elements and its significance in Roth's overall body of work. While each chapter focuses on the central issues in the specific work, several larger themes that run throughout many of his writings will be addressed, including the rise of suburbanization in post-war America, the problems and prominence of the family, American (Jewish) ethnicity, comedy and satire, the costs of literary celebrity, the promises and failures of the American dream, and others. Newcomers to and fans alike will find everything they need in this volume to build a better appreciation of Roth's work.

Cuprins

Introduction
Still Resonant, Revelant, and Crazy After All These Years: Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Jessica G. Rabin
Female Hysteria and Sisterhood in Letting Go and When She Was Good by Julie Husband
Getting in Your Retaliation First: Narrative Strategies in Portnoy's Complaint by David Brauner
Philip Roth, MVP: Our Gang, The Breast, and The Great American Novel by Anne Margaret Daniel
My Life as a Man: The Surprises Manhood Brings by Margaret Smith
How to Tell a True Ghost Story: The Ghost Writer and the Case of Anne Frank by Aimee Pozorski
The Ghosts of Zuckerman's Past: The Zuckerman Bound Series by Alexis Kate Wilson
En-Countering Pastorals in The Counterlife by Bonnie Lyons
Caught between The Facts and Deception by Richard Tuerk
The Measure of All Things: Patrimony by Benjamin Hedin
Operation Shylock: Double Double Jewish Trouble by Elaine B. Safer
A Little Stranger in the House: Madness and Identity in Sabbath's Theater by Ranen Omer-Sherman
Pastoral Dreams and National Identity in American Pastoral and I Married a Communist by Derek Parker Royal
Becoming Black: Zuckerman's Bifurcating Self in The Human Stain by Tim Parrish
Professing Desire: The Kepesh Novels by Kevin R. West
It Can Happen Here, or All in the Family Values: Surviving The Plot Against America by Alan Cooper
The "Written World" of Philip Roth's Nonfiction by Darren Hughes
Bibliography

Recenzii

Offering 17 original essays, this excellent collection makes a fine addition to the substantial body of critical and scholarly work on this important author..Each of the well-written essays deals with one or several of Roth's works, so the book as a whole presents the reader with a chronologically organized survey of virtually all Roth's books, including his biographical and critical writings. The scope and depth of the book are illuminated in the themes that recur throughout, among them, in Ross's words, the joining of the public and the private in Roth's fiction and autobiography, and, in Parker Royal's words, the ways in which American identity and Jewish ethnicity are negotiated. Enhanced by an extensive bibliography, this book provides a sophisticated but accessible introduction to the Roth canon. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author is a timely and welcome addition to Roth scholarship..This new book is a collection of some seventeen essays from UK and US scholars. Generally tracing the outline of Roth's work from Goodbye, Columbus through to The Plot Against America each essay offers a plot synopsis before launching into a new argument on the text. This makes for innovative stuff..As a whole the volume presents invigorating critique, breathing new life into the earlier texts and offering considered perspectives on the later works..The scope of the volume, combined with the plot summaries and the kind of scholarship engaged throughout, make this book that rare thing: something of value for scholars in the field and the newcomer alike.
[N]o one has been so instrumental lately in preparing a fertile ground for the study of Roth's work than Derek Parker Royal, founder and president of the Philip Roth Society and its allied journal. In Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author, Royal draws together a fine collection of sophisticated but accessible essays from both established and young scholars. The anthology demonstrates the many ways in which the study of Roth's work has matured and deepened..As the recent rich production of scholarship on Roth attests, this is an important moment for a retrospective view of his work, and Derek Parker Royal's volume is a welcome addition to that process of reevaluation. The essays are probing and energetic, offering a solid introduction to the fiction for readers unfamiliar with Roth's work as well as superb new readings for scholars in the field.
Scholars of English literature take another look at the American novelist and his entire body of work now that many critics and readers - if not the general public - say that he has developed an ever more compelling narrative voice since his controversial best-seller days through the 1970s and 1990s.
The difficulty of writing about a career as long as Roth's is that it has gone on for so long now that it seems more like five careers, or ten. It is this difficulty that makes a well-edited collection of essays by different critics on different books in Roth's oeuvre so suitable to the task. Derek Peter Royal's books lets in as many perspectives as there are books, providing a coherent, chronological introduction to all of Roth's writing while allowing the diversity and incoherence of his many concerns to emerge..[b]y demonstrating the seemingly endless reading of Roth's long career, they provide an invitation to take another look at an author we thought we knew so well.
The very pluralism of this collection, the twentieth book-length study of Roth in English thus far published (and a few more are imminent), makes it essential for anyone studying or savoring the elusive master who once told an interviewer, Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. With friends like that, Roth remains and indispensible acquaintance.